Dimensional Christmas Tree

At last month’s meeting of the smaller group I attend, one of our members kindly taught us how to make a dimensional Christmas tree wall hanging. I’ve managed to finish my version of it just in time for the next meeting, which will be this week. 🙂 It was suggested to use green fabrics for the tree — of course! — and a light background, but I was using scraps from my stash and found it better to reverse the colors because of the shapes I had available.

I think you can tell that the bottom of each “layer” of the tree isn’t sewn down. I was supposed to make each one slightly “poofy” to stand away a bit from the background, but I decided to make them flat to make storage simpler. 😉 I machine quilted the background before applying the tree parts, and that was definitely a good decision; I didn’t have to work around the tree at all as I quilted! I kept the quilting simple, with wavy lines around the tree trunk and some basic large feathers around the top. I think you may be able to see the feathers here, if you click on the photo to make it larger.

The original pattern had a pieced border, but I happened to have this pretty stripe left over from a previous project, so I used that instead.

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